The Seattle Mariners capped a flurry of moves to retool their minor-league ranks Friday by sending left-handed pitcher J.A. Happ to the Pittsburgh Pirates for right-hander Adrian Sampson from Triple-A Indianapolis. Sampson, a Redmond native that went to Bellevue College, is expected to report to Triple-A Tacoma in the next couple days. The Mariners will presumably […]
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The Seattle Mariners reinforced their role as sellers Friday when they sent reliever Mark Lowe to the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for three prospects hours before Major League Baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline. Jon Heyman of CBS Sports broke the news. Lowe, 32, was in the midst of a remarkable season with Seattle and fits the […]
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Dustin Ackley is done in Seattle. Next stop: New York. After speculation intensified in the days leading up to Friday’s 1 p.m. Pacific trade deadline, the Mariners swapped Ackley to the Yankees on Thursday afternoon in exchange for Triple-A pitcher Jose Ramirez and outfielder Ramon Flores. The news, first reported by television analyst Jack Curry of the Yankees’ YES Network, […]
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[Update: The Mariners ended up shipping Ackley to the Yankees in exchange for Flores and teammate Jose Ramirez, a reliever, according to a report from YES Network’s Jack Curry.] Seattle Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik isn’t ready to part ways with left fielder Dustin Ackley. At least, not for the price the New York Yankees are […]
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The deals are coming fast and furious in the days leading up to Major League Baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline at 1 p.m. Pacific — just not for the Seattle Mariners. More than a dozen trades have been completed since Sunday, and things really heated up on Wednesday, when the Philadelphia Phillies sent ace Cole Hamels […]
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The Seattle Mariners have a well-publicized history of former players going on to succeed elsewhere, then returning — as a visitor — to torment, but it will be hard to top what catcher Welington Castillo did to his previous club in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ three-game sweep at Safeco Field. Castillo battered ace Felix Hernandez on Wednesday afternoon with a […]
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Before the first pitch of Wednesday’s series finale between the Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks, the Blue Angels flew over 32,502 fans at Safeco Field. That spectacle was as good as it got, as the M’s dropped the series finale 8-2, ensuring a three-game sweep for the visiting D-backs. Mariners ace Felix Hernandez allowed four runs in the top of […]
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